Category: Mental Health
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A Proven CBT Strategy That Treats The Core Of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder is a disorder of worry. People with generalized anxiety tend to worry excessively about a number of different things: family, relationships, work, school, the future, health – you name it. Because there are so many worries, people start to try to deal with every worry, but it is hard to put out…
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How To Stop Insomnia From Ruining Your Life: An Insomnia Therapist Perspective
For some people, insomnia feels all-consuming – it pervades through every inch of their lives and they feel helpless to stop their sleep struggles. They lie at night wide awake, counting down the minutes until they have to wake up wishing for sleep to take them away even for a moment. But sleep never seems…
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How Much Sleep Does A 60-Year-Old Need?
People are often attached to the magic 8-hour number when it comes to sleep needs. In reality, there are individual differences in how much sleep each person needs – some folks are 9-hour sleepers, others are 6-hour sleepers – and some are another number entirely. In fact, trying to get 8 hours of sleep…
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CBT Self-Help Guide For Treating Insomnia Based On Sleep Science
Insomnia disorder is sleep problem defined by difficulty falling and/or staying asleep that happens at least three times a week and has persisted for at least three months. Additionally, these nighttime problems are combined with daytime symptoms, like exhaustion, irritability, and difficulty concentrating. The problems also happen even if you give yourself enough time to…
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Should I Leave Or Stay In Bed When I Cannot Sleep?
In insomnia, people have high anxiety about being unable to sleep. Moreover, they often spend a lot of their time in bed awake and feeling distressed. Over time, their brain begins to make an association between the bed and wakefulness (known as conditioned arousal). If you have ever had the experience of going to bed…
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Examples Of SMART Goals For Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder is a fear of negative evaluation – meaning that a person gets anxious in social situation because they worry about what the other person thinks about them. For example, in a presentation, they may fear other people thinking that they are boring, sound stupid, or that they can see them blushing or…
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Examples Of SMART Goals For Panic Disorder
Panic Disorder is a mental health disorder where people struggle with a fear of panic attacks or having symptoms of panic attacks (such as racing heart or sweating). They worry that these symptoms will only get worse or are a sign of something catastrophic – for example, a heart attack or seizure. As a result,…
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Examples Of SMART Goals For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intro to OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that – as the name suggests – revolve around obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are intrusive thoughts, images, or urges, and can span a number of different themes. For example, there can be obsessions related to doubt (“did I leave the stove on?”), contamination…
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Examples of SMART Goals For Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder as described as excessive worry about a number of different topics. These worries can span anywhere from big themes – such as family, relationships, the future – all the way down to every day concerns like appointments and whether we will like a new restaurant. Most people have worries, however, folks with…
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How I Help People With Insomnia As A CBT Therapist
Millions of people struggle with insomnia. In fact, some studies suggest that nearly one in three people experience at least one symptom of insomnia, such as difficulty falling and/or staying asleep, or waking up too early. Most people are familiar with sleep medication, but there is less familiarity with the use of therapy (like cognitive…
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